Morphology of action potentials recorded from human nerves using microneurography

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 308-314

  Inglis, J Timothy ^b   Leeper, James B ^a   Burke, David ^a   Gandevia, Simon C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action potential morphology; Conduction block; Human; Microneurography; Muscle afferents

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROELECTRODE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; SPINAL CORD; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0029941357     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00228561     Document Type: Article

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